I was wondering if the the marrow bones you can find in the supermarket are good for dogs. Someone told me that they boil them for there dogs and then give them to them and they love it. Are these safe?

Cooked bones of any kind aren't a good idea, as they can splinter and cause damage. I do have one ultra thick cow bone that I let them gnaw on sometimes (a friend brought over) but only because they could make no headway on it-it was like a rock. By the time Daisy chipped it I put it away. Mine prefer the biggest nylabones...the ones for powerful chewers. They last a very long time compared to everything else.

I buy the raw marrow bones right out of the meat section in the supermarket. If they are too long, I'll ask the butcher to cut them in half so they can get all the marrow out. They are usually labeled soup bones. The dogs love them!

They're not very thick. One of my dogs can chew them up (she's a hardcore chewer), and the other one can't or wont...she just licks the marrow out (lazy thing). I like them because they're cheap and even when they lick the marrow out, they'll chew on them (except lazy )

Those are easy chews for my kids. I tend to get the cut ones, so they are halved and jaws can't get stuck in the bone. They last a day or so, my pug will have one chewed in a couple of hours, he's real hard core.

i usually get knuckle bones for luce, "soup bones" from the local butcher. they come with some meat on them. she thinks they're fabulous. she eats off the meat, them scrapes out the marrow, and eventually if i don't replace it, she'll eat the whole bone. they smell TERRIBLE until she gets the meat cleaned off .